The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Rupp
Presentation by Scott Rupp at the Alaska Interagency Fall Fire Review, October 14, 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Learn about how fuels are an integral piece of the fire environment triangle and the basic properties of fuels. This video is part of the World of Wildland Fire video series.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Learn how the four phases of combustion contribute to the burning of wildland fire fuels.This video discusses preignition, ignition, combustion, and extinction and how these phases relate to fire behavior and fire spread. This video is part of the World of Wildland Fire video…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Learn the basics of combustion through the fire triangle and the three methods of heat transfer. This video is part of the World of Wildland Fire video series.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
What is live fuel moisture, what are the factors that influence it, why it is important for fire management. In this video you will learn: 1) What is live fuel moisture and how is it measured? 2) How do seasonal changes and plant types affect live fuel moisture? 3) How do other…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Donvovan
[from the text] In the early 1990’s remote sensing experts from Michigan travelled to Alaska to investigate use of the new field of satellite remote sensing to study the Alaskan landscape. At the time, Eric Kasischke, Nancy French, and Laura Bourgeau-Chavez worked at the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, Perera
Fire is a natural disturbance that is nearly ubiquitous in terrestrial ecosystems. The capacity to burn exists virtually wherever vegetation grows. In some forested landscapes, fire is a principal driver of rapid ecosystem change, resetting succession (McKenzie et al. 1996a) and…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire severity refers to the effects of a fire on the environment, typically focusing on the loss of vegetation both above ground and below ground but also including soil impacts.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bahrani
The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of weathering on the performance of intumescent fire-retardant coatings on wooden products. The weathering effects included primary (solar irradiation, moisture, and temperature) and secondary (environmental contaminants…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calef, Varvak, McGuire, Chapin, Reinhold
The Alaskan boreal forest is characterized by frequent extensive wildfires whose spatial extent has been mapped for the past 70 years. Simple predictions based on this record indicate that area burned will increase as a response to climate warming in Alaska. However, two…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grootemaat, Wright, van Bodegom, Cornelissen, Cornwell
In fireprone ecosystems, two important alternative fates for leaves are burning in a wildfire (when alive or as litter) or they get consumed (as litter) by decomposers. The influence of leaf traits on litter decomposition rate is reasonably well understood. In contrast, less is…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Belval, Wei, Bevers
Wildfire suppression combines multiple objectives and dynamic fire behavior to form a complex problem for decision makers. This paper presents a mixed integer program designed to explore integrating spatial fire behavior and suppression placement decisions into a mathematical…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kiefer, Heilman, Zhong, Charney, Bian
This study examines the sensitivity of mean and turbulent flow in the planetary boundary layer and roughness sublayer to a low-intensity fire and evaluates whether the sensitivity is dependent on canopy and background atmospheric properties. The ARPS-CANOPY model, a modified…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Anaya
Convective instability can influence the behaviour of large wildfires. Because wildfires modify the temperature and moisture of air in their plumes, instability calculations using ambient conditions may not accurately represent convective potential for some fire plumes. This…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rogers, Soja, Goulden, Randerson
Wildfires are common in boreal forests around the globe and strongly influence ecosystem processes. However, North American forests support more high-intensity crown fires than Eurasia, where lower-intensity surface fires are common. These two types of fire can result in…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fox, Whitesides
Spreading fires are noisy (and potentially chaotic) systems in which transitions in dynamics are notoriously difficult to predict. As flames move through spatially heterogeneous environments, sudden shifts in temperature, wind, or topography can generate combustion instabilities…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hantson, Pueyo, Chuvieco
Aim: In order to understand fire's impacts on vegetation dynamics, it is crucial that the distribution of fire sizes be known. We approached this distribution using a power-law distribution, which derives from self-organized criticality theory (SOC). We compute the global…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ziel
As the fire behavior community aspires to promote best practices amongst a range of fire behavior experience, this webinar strives to share information regarding lessons learned from fire behavior prediction on 2015 wildfire incidents. Every fire season there are parts of the…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Guyette
A presentation recorded at the Restoring the West Conference 2015: Restoration and Fire in the Interior West.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Campbell
On May 19, 2014, during unusually dry weather, a fire started in a popular recreational area near Funny River Road in the Kenai, near Newberry's home. The wind pushed it through dry grasses and into insect-killed stands of spruce. By the end of the day, fire had consumed 2,500…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Heilman, Tang, Luo, Zhong, Winkler, Bian
Occurrences of large and sometimes extreme and erratic wildfires in the United States in recent years have raised speculation about what projected future climate conditions might mean for future wildfire activity and fire weather in different regions of the United States. This…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt
Climate controls the magnitude, duration, and frequency of weather conditions associated with extreme fire behavior. In a warming climate, we are experiencing earlier snowmelt, longer fire seasons, and greater incidence of drought. We expect these trends to increase.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Miller, Parks
This proposal addresses JFSP announcement FA-RFA-12-0001, task statement #3 'Fuel treatment effectiveness.' The proposed project will quantify the effectiveness of wildland fire as a fuel treatment in terms of its ability to limit the occurrence, extent, and burn severity (i.e.…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Seielstad, Fletcher
This project is developing methods to spatially represent shrub fuel matrices of chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum Hook. & Arn.) and sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt.) using laser scanning, simulating fire propagation through them, and validating simulations against…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
Fuel treatments to reduce wildfire behavior and severity are major concerns for fire and forest managers throughout the United States. To test treatment effects and alternatives, managers rely on simulation models, such as Behave, the Fire Area Simulator, and the Fire and Fuels…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES